GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

lojitsu A-Z Horror Movie of the Day..."The Penny Dreadful Picture Show" (NR - 2013 - US)Sub-Genre: Slasher/Anthology My Score: 6.0Cast=5 Acting=4 Plot=6 Ending=6 Story=6 Scare=5 Jump=6 F/X=7 Blood=8 Anthology=7Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater."You have to be on your best behavior...we have a guest." I guessed I would enjoy this and I guessed right. If you would have guessed like the rest and thought this wasn't the best, show a little zest and be my guest. If you thought I said it was the best, I confess it was in gest...but it's not like the rest. There were shades of tales from the crypt or Elvira...it made for a fun anthology filled with blood and a few laughs.

Paul Magne Haakonsen "The Penny Dreadful Picture Show" was essentially a snooze fest wrapped up in an interesting packaging.This is not really a movie as per se, but more something in the likes of "Creep Show" - an anthology of short stories if you will.The opening segment of "Slash in the Box" was just downright embarrassing to watch. The story was non-existent and it was just toe-curling to witness.On to the second segment which is titled "The Morning After", it is a vampire story unlike most others. That being said, then it was lacking conviction, impact and turned out to be just plain.The last segment is titled "The Slaughter House", and that was actually the best of the entire experience. It was a nice treat to have Sid Haig and Jeffrey Combs appear in this segment. This sort of was like a low budget parody on "House of 1000 Corpses", whether intentional or not, I do not know. It wasn't particularly outstanding, but compared to the other two segments, then this was a bright star.What made it actually interesting was the intermissions with Penny and the run down movie theater. There was really a nice feeling to this and a lot of details put into this.The overall experience was less than mediocre. And for an addition to the horror vault, then "The Penny Dreadful Picture Show" was a fairly weak addition.

Jesse Boland An anthology of sorts, that really has it's great, and horrible moments. This movie starts out really poorly, but it will surprise you more than once, and those surprises plus there are a couple of really great cult movie acting greats hiding in there, it's for you to find the less obvious ones. I mentioned the poor start, and that was almost the death of this movie for me, however because the first story is so short, we get past that, and move on to the real meat of the movie. The beginning is funnier at the end anyhow. ;) So I Enjoyed this movie a lot, and found myself applauding at one point to my surprise, you might know the point I mean, it is movie history in the making it really is. I recommend that any horror fan worth 2 cents waste no time, and see this. Any classic cult horror fan will be pleasantly surprised by this movie. I can promise you have never seen anything exactly like this before. All that said it is graphic, and gory, and full of really adolescently adult humour.(yeah best kind)

Jared Davis "The Penny Dreadful Picture Show" is a quirky little movie. It's comprised of three little horror movies and a framing sequence of the undead red-headed girl Penny Dreadful watching movies in her ancient movie theater with a couple of her undead buddies. She's demented and rather fun to watch, even as she lures in a couple guests.Penny watches three films: "Slash in the Box" is first and features a young couple examining a strange Jack in the Box. I didn't time it, but this certainly under 10 minutes.Second is a film about 20 minutes about a woman dying of a terminal illness who mysteriously gets a shot at a longer life for a pretty horrible price.Third is "Slaughterhouse." In many ways, it brings to mind movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" as it finds a group of young adults coming across a backwoods family and brutal and grisly results soon follow. The fun thing is, in many ways, you expect one thing and get a bloody good twist.The DVD release comes with a fourth short film called "The Scout," featuring boy scouts going on an overnight "Snipe Hunt." However, late at night, they become the hunted.Perhaps the films aren't Hollywood gore and snuff-film caliber, but they are a lot of fun. Speaking of gore, it's there, but it's not excessive. (I typically do not enjoy gory movies, I cannot even look at the screen of a "Saw" movie for ten minutes straight, but I was able to sit through this just fine.) There aren't a lot of big names in the cast. The biggest are Sid Haig and ex-wrestler Al Snow. But that doesn't mean the acting is poor. Each film had a completely different world and sold it completely. Eliza Swenson is an excellent actress as Penny and a character in "Slaughterhouse." Overall, "The Penny Dreadful Picture Show" is a fun Halloween movie that doesn't take itself too seriously and is better for the result!